Apparatus for treating wire rods.



No 737,362. PATENTED AUG. 25, 1903..

F. H. DANIELS.

APPARATUS FOR TREATING WIRE RODS. APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 12, 1903.

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PATENT OFFICE.

FRED H. DANIELS, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

APPARATUS FOR TREATING WIRE RODS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 737,362, dated August 25, 1903.

Application filed. June 12, 1903. Serial No. 161,164. (No model.)

To (0Z5 whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED H. DANIELS, a citizen of the United States, residing at WVorcester, county of Vorcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Treating IVire Rods; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

In the manufacture of wire rods it is customary to lead the finished rod from the finishing-roll to an automatic reel which forms it into a bundle while still at a dull-red heat, which is afterward cooled. If the rods be allowed to cool in contact with the air, the action of the air upon the hot metal forms a heavy coating of oxid or scale upon the outer surfaces, which must be thoroughly cleaned off before the material can be satisfactorily drawn into wire. This cleaningprocess,whieh generally consists in immersing the coil in a dil ute solution of sulfuric orhydroehloric acid, involves considerable expense for labor and materials.

The object of my invention is to provide an apparatus adapted to perform all the operations necessary in treating wire rods, including the coiling and cooling of the rod after it leaves the finishing-roll, which operations are carried out under such conditions that air is practically excluded from contact with the hot rods and the latter are not subjected to any scaling or oxidation.

The present form of my invention, which is designed particularly to operate upon copper or low-carbon stocks,contemplates the coiling and quenching of the rods in a bath of water or other suitable fluid.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of the complete apparatus, and" Fig. 2 is an end View thereof.

Referring to the drawings, a indicates the finishing-rolls of a rod-rolling mill, which deliver the hot rods to an automatic coiler or reel in close proximity thereto. The automatic reel, which may be of any well-known type, but is preferably of the general character of that illustrated, is provided with a rotating head I, through which the rod is conducted by a pipe b, above the center thereof, thence through a tubular coiler-arm cl. This arm is made to rotate at a proper speed by means of gearing 0, operated from shaft 1), in turn driven by a belt-pulley q, and the wire is thus laid up in a coil about upstanding pegs or pins f upon a platform e in accordance with the well-known wire-mill practice. Instead of having the finished'coil exposed to the air I perform the coiling operation in a suitable liquid bath for the purpose of pro tecting the newly-rolled rod from the action of the air and at the same time to effect the rapid cooling of the same. To this end the coiling-platform is submerged in a tank A, containing water or other suitable liquid of a sufficient depth to cover the platform and any coil that may be thereon.

For the purpose of thoroughly cooling the coils after they have been finished I place in the tank A, beside the platform 6, a conveyor iof any preferred form, which is also completely submerged in the liquid and is adapted to receive the finished coils from the platform and convey them through the body of the liquid in the tank and deliver them finally to an inclined dripping-board j or at any con- 1 venient point.

In order to release the finished coil from the pegs or pins f on the coiling-platform, I provide suitable means for raising and lowering the pegs or pins at appropriate times. In the particular form of my invention illustrated the peg-actuating means comprises a power-cylinder g, operatinga suitable piston to elevate the pegs for the purpose of receiving the coil or to depress the same below the level of the platform to permit the coil to be removed. It is obvious, of course, that the power mechanism may be operated manually or automatically.

In order to move the finished coil from the platform 0 to the conveyor, I provide apusher h, which may be of any of the well-known forms and may be either manually or auto matically operated.

It is to be observed that the entire series of operations upon the rod after the latter leaves the finishing-rolls is accomplished while the material is completely submerged, so that the possibility of scalingis entirely obviated and the coils are quickly and effectively cooled.

What I claim as my invention is 1. An apparatus for treating Wire rods, comprising a reel receiving the rods from the rolls, a tank containing fluid in which said rods are submerged while they are being coiled, and means for receiving the coils from the reel and conducting the same through the fluid in the tank.

2. An apparatus for treating wire rods,

comprisinga reel receiving the rods from the in said tank to receive the coils from the reel and pass the same through the fluid in the tank, and means for transferring the coils from the reel to the conveyer.

4. An apparatus for treating wire rods, comprising a reel, a platform upon which said reel is mounted a coiler for coiling the rods on the reel, a tank containing fluid in which the platform is submerged, a conveyer in said tank to receive the coils from the platform and pass the same through the fluid in the tank, and means for transferring the coils from the platform to the conveyer.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRED H. DANIELS.

Witnesses:

A. F. BACKLIN, W. D. THOMPSON. 

